AGNEEPATH

The film opens with schoolmaster Dinanath Chauhan (Alok Nath) and his 10-year-old son Vijay (Manjunath) watching the sunset over their village of Mandwa, India. Vijay innocently asks why their village becomes dark (there is no electricity) at night when the city (Mumbai) remains lit. On their morning walk, Dinanath teaches his son the poem "Agneepath." Dinanath is a reformer. He runs a small school, leads a (rather weak) campaign to obtain electricity and infrastructure, and generally uplifts the village. Unbeknownst to him, the village of Mandwa has been insidiously taken over by powerful crime baron Kancha Cheena (Danny Denzongpa). Kancha uses the village as a landing point for his contraband. The village must remain an unnoticed hamlet on the coast, so Kancha opposes any move for improvement and specifically intends to remove or eliminate Dinanath......Read More